The Taylor Swift-Kanye West VMA incident was actually great for everyone involved

Six years after Kanye West infamously interrupted Taylor Swift at the MTV Video Music Awards it's becoming clear that both artists have profited from the incident.

Swift recently told GQ that the relationship she developed with West as a result of the incident has been a career highlight. West on the other hand, who was perceived as a villain after that night, said that the backlash he received from it inspired his next album, "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy."

"The only way for me to somehow buy my affection of the public back was to deliver an absolutely perfected product," he told Ryan Seacrest in 2013. That album is now considered a classic.